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Inl-ill QMW( ATTORNEY Patented Feb. 21, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT ol-"Flcl:v l

ARTHUR J'. WEI-SS, OF ST. ALBANS, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO ROBERT GAIR COMPANY,` INC;y 0F WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, A CORPORATION 0F DELAWARE CARTON Application led December 4, 1931. Serial No. 578,855.

This invention relates to containers, cartons, cases or boxes, and has particular reference to oldable or collapsible containers in Which a single blank of materialiseective to form multiple or compound compartments.

Containers of this general type have heretofore been constructed, and limited different materials ha've been housed in adjoining compartments, but in vievsT of hitherto insurmountable obstacles, and features which have not given complete satisfaction, one of the objections of this invention is the provision of a device of the above described character in which adjoining compartments are soarranged as to effectively house any materials with immunity to the passage thereof from one of such compartments to another.

The subdivisions or compartments of the present device accommodate such materials as chemicals, cosmetics, finely ground powders, or cereals. The structure includes opposed side Walls, that is to say, front and rear Walls, a partition, and aps; and another object is to so dispose at least one of the flaps, as a feature of the invention, that it is impossible for the materials to move from one of the compartments to another, said flap Y being carried by the partition.

The device includes opposed lateral Walls, between said iirst Walls, and each of bot-h carries at its opposed ends a single one of.3 said flaps, thereby contributing to the`formation of a neat and symmetrical organization, to secure a further object of the invention.

Opposed top and base ends are formed in the closed position of the device, by the said flaps, and the novel manner of providing one of the latter on each of said Walls, including the partition, is an advantage, since said laps form guides or a filling spout at the top end of the container, and the central or partition lap may be inclined, from a vertical position, over either of tWo compartments, which are formed by the partition, for this latter purpose.

With the above indicated objects and advantages in view, and others which will hereinafter appear, the essential features of the invention are herein clearly described and Afully illustrated in the accompanying raw.-

Fig-4 is a horizontal sectional view taken v on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

`Similar characters of reference are applied to corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The body of the container, which is of cardboard or pasteboard, and may be of any other suitable material, includes front and rear Walls or sections 10, 11, between which, in the set up condition of the device are opposed lateral walls 12, 13; and continuous Witha partition 14 is an attaching flap 15 and also an attaching Wall or portion 16, which is continuous with said Wall 13.

To render the container easy to set up and foldable in substantially one direction, the aforesaid Walls and flaps are formed in part by striking the blank on one of its sides with parallel, longitudinal score lines 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22.

Parallel transverse score lines, generally designated 23 and 24, and continuations of these latter lines, as shown at 25 and 26, are y also struck into the blank, preferably simultaneously with the first mentioned score lines. Aligned with the opposite ends of the score lines 17-19 are cuts, as shown; and ali ned with the opposite ends of the score ines 20-22 are edges of the material, also as shown, so that continuous with the opposite ends of the respective front and rear walls are flaps 27, 28, and 29, 30; and on the opposite ends of the lateral Walls are flaps 31, 32, and 33, 34.

The scorev lines 25, 26 provide on the partition 14 top and base flaps 35 and 36. The flaps 27, 31, 29, 33, on which is suitably provided an adhesive or attaching material, not shown, form a base end for the container, and on this end, Within the device, the base iap 36 is also attached. The attaching por- Cil tions 15, 16 of the partition'are also rovided with adhesive material for attac ng the same to the aforesaid front and rear walls.

In filling the device with any material to be contained therein, the flaps 28, 32, 30, 34, which are closure aps for the top end of the container, serve as filling guides, and the tog flap 35, which may be conveniently incllne to or from either of the compartments 37, 38, serves for the same purpose. The compartment or carton 38 is shown, in the present instance, as being about the same size as the other compartment, but this is merely illustrative, and the said carton is usually small or of different size, in practice.

The fiap 35, which is shown in Fig. 3 as being placed on top of the flap 34, positively prevents movement of material carried in the compartments from one of the latter to the other. At least one of these last mentioned aps, as well as certain faces of the other top iaps, are provided with adhesive material as hereinbefore referred to.

Any quantity of the blanks may, of course, be stacked or kept in ilat condition, ready for use, and blanks may also be stacked or kept flat and in partly folded condition; that is to say with the attaching portions 16 and 15 pasted to the respective front and rear walls, and with the base and top la s unfolded.

Variations may be resorte to within the scope of the invention and one or more parts of the structure may be omitted.

What I claim is:

V1. A container including opposite walls and intermediate walls joining said opposite walls; a partition the same size and shape as, and parallel to, said intermediate walls, secured to and between said op osite walls, to form compartments; inner aps on said intermediate walls, at least one of which extends to said partition and forms a cover'- ing flap adapted to entirely cover the adjacent compartment; a Hap on said partition disposable over said adjacent compartment and adapted to engage said cover flap and extend substantially to the intermediate Wall carrying saidcover fla and outer flaps on said main walls respectively each adapted to be superposed over and entirely cover the other aps.

2. A container including opposite walls and intermediate outer walls joining said opposite walls; a partition the same size and shape as, and parallel to, said intermediate walls, secured to and between said opposite walls, to form compartments; inner flaps on said intermediate walls, at least one of which emends to said partition and forms a covering flap adapted to entirely cover the adjacent compartment; a flap on said partition disposable over said adjacent compartment and adapted to engage said cover flap and extend substantially to the intermediate outer wall of said compartment; and outer flaps on said main walls respectively each adapted to be superposed over and entirely cover the `other flaps, whereby one of said compartments may be entirely covered with four thicknesses of flaps.

3. A container including opposite walls and intermediate walls joining said opposite walls; a partition the same size and shape as, and parallel to, said intermediate walls, secured to and between said opposite walls, toV form compartments; inner flaps on said intermediate walls, at least yone of which extends to said partition and forms a covering flap adapted to entirely cover the adjacent compartment; a Hap on said partition disposable over said adjacent compartment and adapted to engage said cover flap and extend substantiall to at least one of the intermediate wa ls; and outer flaps on said main walls respectively each adapted to be superposed over and entirely cover the other flaps, whereby one of said compartments may be entirely covered with four thicknesses of flaps, the fold lines of sai'd cover flap, the outer flaps and the flap of said partition cooperating to form a complete rectangle.

4. A container including main walls and lateral walls joining the main walls; a partition the same size and shape as, and parallel to, the lateral walls, secured to and between the main walls, to form compartments; inneL iaps on said lateral walls, at least one of which flaps forms a covering flap to entirel cover the adjacent compartment; a sing e intermediate flap on said partition andadapted to engage the entire covering ilap vand to extend as far as the adjacent lateral wall carrying the cover flap; and outer flaps on said main walls respectively each adapted to entirely cover the outer iiaps, and to press the side edges of the covering and intermediate flaps and the free edge of the covering flap into the adjacent compartment and into engagement with the partition and adjacent walls, thereby to render said adjacent compartment sift proof, to prevent spilling or mixing of material therein.

5..A container including main walls and lateral walls joining the main walls; a partition the same size and shape as, and parallel to, the lateral walls, secured to and between the main walls, lto form compartments; inner {iaps on said lateral walls, at least one of which flaps forms a covering iap adapted to entirel cover the adjacent compartment; a single intermediate flap on said partition and adapted to entirely cover the covering flap and to extend as far as the adjacent lateral wall, thereby to direct entirely exterior to the package any material that may work to and from the space between the intermediate and covering aps; and outer iiaps on said main walls respectively each adapted to entirely cover the other flaps.

6. A container including opposite walls and intermediate walls joiningA said opposite walls; a partition the same size -and shape as, and (parallel to, said intermediate walls, secure to and between said opposite walls, to

- form compartments; inner a s on said intermediate walls, at least one o which extends to said partition and forms a covering ap adapted to entirely cover the adjacent compartment; a'single iap on said partition disposable over either compartment and adapted to engage and cover said cover Hap and extend substantially to at least one of the intermediate walls; and outer iaps on said main walls respectively each adapted to be superposed over and entirely cover the other ila s.

i). A container including main walls and lateral walls joining the main walls; a partition the'same size and shape as, and arallel to, the lateral walls, secured to and tween the main walls, to form compartments; inner flaps on said lateral walls, at least one of which aps forms a covering iap to entirely cover the. adjacent compartment; a single intermediate flap on said partition and adapted to entirely cover the coverin flap and to extend as far as the adjacent ateral wall, thereby to direct entirely exterior to the ackage any material that may work to and rom the space between the intermediate and covering flaps; and outer iiaps on said main,- walls respectively each adapted to entirely` cover the other flaps, whereby one of said compartments may be .entirely covered with four thicknesses of iiaps having their fold lines cooperating to form a complete rectangle; the other fiaps being adapted to press the side edges of the coveringand, intermediate flaps and the free edge of the covering Hap into the adjacent compartment and into engagement with the partition and ad'acent walls.

igned at New York .cit in the county of New York and State of ew York this 1st day of December 1931 A. D. Y I ARTHUR J. WEISS. 

